TE'O: She actually came to one of the games. She
saw me at one of the games.

SI: October 15, I assume is USC?

TE'O: That was in November. But she saw me at
the USC game of my sophomore year. We were still just friends, we
were acquaintances.

That is wishy-washy. But perhaps he was just embarrassed that
they met online, as
Thamel writes in the introduction, "The only time he didn't
speak with confidence was when I asked how they met. I didn't
press him, as it was clearly something he didn't want to share. I
suspected they may have met online, understood he wouldn't have
wanted that public and moved on."

Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick
said last night that Te'o never met Kekua. So the fake
meeting story is either a white lie (if Te'o was just embarrassed
by the online thing), or a much darker lie (if he was a
perpetrator of the hoax).

There's also one other bizarre detail from the
transcript: Te'o told Thamel that from the time she
got in a car accident on April 28 to the day she "died" on
September 12, Kekua was in the hospital. He says Kekua
was first in a coma from the accident, and then immediately went
to treatment for leukemia.

But during that time (summer break for Notre Dame), Te'o never
visited her in the hospital, and when she died, he never went to
her funeral.

Regardless, Te'o speaks in rich detail about her. Here are some
examples.

"One of the miraculous things was when I talked to her and she
would hear my voice her breathing would pick up. Like quickly,
and then she would start crying. But her breathing would quicken,
and she would start crying. So her brother was in the room with
the nurse. They were monitoring her. She said, "Who is she on the
phone with?" Her boyfriend. She was like, 'That's amazing. She
doesn't do that with anybody else.' So that happened. And then
she flatlined and we were losing her."

"So right when I landed, I was expecting to get a voicemail
saying she's gone. So I landed and I had a voicemail from her
brother saying, 'Brother, call me back right now.' So you can
imagine what's going through my head. I was like, "What am I
going to do? How am I going to take this?'"And so I called him
back, the doctor came in and he saw something and he wants to try
some treatment on her to see if it works. From there she slowly
started to get better. Slowly."

TE'O: Yes. The family was telling me, what the
plans were and at 9 they closed the casket and stuff like that.

SI: Where were you at noon yesterday?

TE'O: It was kind of actually perfect timing. I
was getting my reps and in my mind I said, "What time is it? What
time is it?" It was perfect timing. Right when coach was
like,"All right, second group get it," I turned to him and was
like, "Coach what time is it?" He said, "It's 12:01." As I walked
back to the (inaudible) I just cried.

That's not all.

One of Te'o's high school friends, UCLA football player Dalton
Hilliard, told Thamel at the time that he communicated with
Kekua, but never met her.

We really have no idea if this makes it more or less likely that
Te'o was in on it.

These are all lies, of course. But are they Te'o's lies? Or the
alleged hoaxer's?